This information was obtained from the portals of the pages authorized by the contest:
“The day in general has slowed down a bit, so I try to change the routine whenever I can. This can be doing different things, or doing the same things in a different sequence if possible”, says Diego Urbina, in the MASRS500 simulation conducted in Russia by ESA. Some people tend not to know how to use their time properly because they have never had so much time at their mercy. That is why according to the isolation guidelines that you page like NASA, ESA mention, in which as an astronaut you must cope with social isolation in extreme conditions among them five good expeditionary behavior skills stand out (to live in confined spaces) :
1. communication
2. leadership / followers
3. self-care
4. equipment care
5. group life
According to the information provided by the web portals of the pages of the aerospace companies, we can indicate that Amelia satisfactorily fulfills all the points, which are listed below in more detail:
1. Amelia is an application designed entirely to provide a communication service and a “virtual friend” experience, allowing users to enter words through text input or voice commands, and Amelia can generate a series of activities for the Users interact more with other people by implementing the use of technologies such as: phone calls, video calls, instant messaging, etc.
2. The application is designed to provide all kinds of information to users, however, to avoid generating dependency on the application, Amelia has a series of recommendations at its disposal for users to play online games such as chess or checkers. , which promote leadership values
and help understand the importance of a hierarchical order.
3. Amelia provides, through the insertion of both voice and text commands, a range of information about health care and both preventive and treatment measures to combat the Covid-19.
4. It has built-in emergency care numbers and tips for proper maintenance of rooms, homes, etc.
5. Amelia is designed so that in the future it works as instant messaging so that in this way you can interact with other users, while Amelia can learn from conversations between people.
It was developed based on a concern, as mentioned previously in how some people do not know how to cope with long periods of specific inactivity, so we decided to make an application called Amelia (it was considered a female name due to the acceptance rate of users to interact with virtual female characters) which will provide advice and allow users to engage in conversations with the AI.
An evaluation was made regarding how astronauts managed to cope with periods of isolation as part of their training, in addition to the psychological drawbacks they had presented during the simulations and, based on these data, it was thought to develop an application for mobile devices that would allow Its users have a pocket friend, which in turn does not generate dependency since it not only advises activities, but also suggests that they start new relationships.
The data collected was taken from different sources such as NASA, ESA and we used this information in a documentary way, the information obtained helped us shape our project because we had a broader context about what social isolation really is.
For the development of this application, the Google program called Dialogflow was used, which is a program that through the use of intuitive tools allows us to create a conversation simulator, which allowed us to give Amelia the result.
Naturally, due to the lack of programming knowledge, it was required to do a quick investigation on the development of applications, in addition to some drawbacks with our work environments, but that did not, however, prevent the generation of the Amelia bases.
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